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Chuaqui books - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Chuaqui_books/7 Mar 2023: The impredicative comprehension axiom for classes is stronger than the corresponding principles in the usual theories of Zermelo-Fraenckel and von Neumann-Bernays-Gödel. ... We know that this is impossible (by Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem). Therefore
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Hans Samelson (1916 - 2005) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Samelson/7 Mar 2023: I am not quite sure I have everybody. The permanent members - those famous names that I had never thought of as people:also (invisible, to me at any rate) Gödel, and,
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Gian-Carlo Rota: Alonzo Church - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Rota_Church/7 Mar 2023: Church:. It cannot be a complete coincidence that several outstanding logicians of the twentieth century found shelter in asylums at some time in their lives: Cantor, Zermelo, Gödel, Peano, and Post
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Rafael Bombelli (1526 - 1572) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Bombelli/7 Mar 2023: K Reich, Diophant, Cardano, Bombelli, Viète : Ein Vergleich ihrer Aufgaben, Festschrift für Kurt Vogel (Munich, 1968), 131-150.
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Theodor Schneider (1911 - 1988) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schneider/7 Mar 2023: Kurt Mahler, who himself made important contributions to transcendence of numbers, writes in a review:-.
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Michael Stifel (1487 - 1567) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Stifel/7 Mar 2023: However, it is worth noting that Stifel still had no notation for =. We end this biography with the following assessment by Kurt Vogel [1]:-.
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Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja (1896 - 1966) - Biography - MacTutor …
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Janovskaja/7 Mar 2023: Born. 31 January 1896. Pruzhany, Russian Empire (now Belarus). Died. 24 October 1966. Moscow, USSR. Summary. Sof'ja Aleksandrovna Janovskaja was a Polish-born mathematician who worked on the philosophy of mathematics and logic. . View two larger
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Henri Andoyer (1862 - 1929) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Andoyer/7 Mar 2023: in 1906. This first part on theoretical astronomy is reviewed in [14] where Kurt Laves writes that Andoyer's book serves the:-.
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Diophantine approximations - MacTutor History of Mathematics
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Diophantine_approximations/7 Mar 2023: If I had more time, I would tell you how a few months ago Kurt Mahler proved the strange Khinchin Transfer Theorem in a surprisingly simple way, and how Vojtech Jarnik ... Instead of going into this, as well as two analogous theorems by Kurt Mahler, I
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Fritz Grunewald (1949 - 2010) - Biography - MacTutor History of…
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Grunewald/7 Mar 2023: Helene remarried quite soon, remaining on the farm; Fritz's stepfather Kurt Kinkel was [like Helene and her mother] a rather dominating personality, and relations between him and the young Fritz